New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-18

New OK O'W IOr d CuDudy StIou VO-u"y VIM
wonder as he gazes at the handsome struct-
ure how it is that German club In q
foreign land has tourished so. lie will not
realize, nor do many other native-born Amer
leans realize, that New-York is the second or
third German city in the world, and that the
Germans in it are not in a foreign land but
very much at home and welcome, too.
Excellent work was done last week at Creed
moor by our military marksmen The shoot
ing was better than it has been for years,
and the interest shown by the participants In
the matches promises even better results for
the future. Unfortunately, the attendance
of spectators has not been large. Indeed,
outside of the friends of the marksmen, few
people have been there. The reason for this
undoubtedly is that CreedmOor is place hard
to get at 1t is a mile and half away from
the railroad, and the railroad journey itself
Is most disagrceable. Going there to see the
shooting has ceased to be popular amuse-
mcnt. This is a matter which the National
Rifle Association might well give attention to.
If Crcedmoor's glory is ever to revive 1t must
DO made more accessible and comfortable.
II that cannot be done, let the managers look
The last report of the secretary OF the
Society for Improving the Condition OF the
Poor is decidedly discouraging reading. 1t
declares that the condition Of ga vast majority
of tenement-house homes in New-York Is
"deplorable'; and it is feared that reform
NAV como in burst of public indignation
destructive to property and good morals" Yet
for the last ten years, or for nearly that time,
at least the most energetic efforts have been
made both by phianthropists and legislators
ct Albany to improve New-YOrk tenement
houses. Several excellent laws have been
passed to help on the work-laws, too, which
embodied the results of careful Investigations
by intelligent men. The task of enforcing
these laws has occupied much OF the time OF
the Health Board emplo, es. Has all this
work amounted to nothlngP Has it left
"the vast majority of homes for the poor
In deplorable condition? Let us hope that
the reality is not quito so bad as the picture.
It is a satisfaction to know that the con-
dcmned Anarchists do not want the Governor
of Illinois to pardon them. There they are in
entire agreement. probably for the first time in
tnCiT lives, WIN oil tuC lSoPSSNo"'S PSNP'S So
the United States. Their views in regard to
the matter will also be great relief to those
over-mercifu men and women who never
want an, body punished adequately for wrong
doing no matter how shocking crime may
have been committed; for if the Anarchists
themselves don't want to be pardoned, no one
else need feel called upon TO seek executive
Clemency for them. The condemned men,
however. have no objection to saving their
nccks by legal procedure, and no efforts will
BE- spared TO have their case carried to the
United States Court. They count somewhat
il is said. upon the fact that Justice 5. F.
Miller, of the Supreme Bench, is opposed to
capital punishment. and application for a
writ of error viii be made to him. This is a
painfully slender hope. Whatever may be
Justice Millers views in regard to the death
penalty, no is not likely to grant writs of error
without good reason.
We have taken pleasure within few days
10 giving Secretary Bayard credit for excluding
oil questions concerning the Alaskan fisheries
from tho negotiations" which he has been
carrying on with England touching the Cana